Flower-deficient mice have reduced susceptibility to skin papilloma formation

SUMMARY Skin papillomas arise as a result of clonal expansion of mutant cells. It has been proposed that the expansion of pretumoral cell clones is propelled not only by the increased proliferation capacity of mutant cells, but also by active cell selection. Previous studies in Drosophila describe a...

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Main Authors: Evgeniya Petrova, Jesús M. López-Gay, Christa Rhiner, Eduardo Moreno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists 2012-07-01
Series:Disease Models & Mechanisms
Online Access:http://dmm.biologists.org/content/5/4/553